1230. Impact of Nonpayment for Preventable Infections on Billing Rates for Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections and CatheterAssociated Urinary Tract Infections Alison Tse Kawai, ScD, SM; Robert Jin, MS; Stephen Soumerai, ScD; Louise Elaine Vaz, MD; Melisa Rett, MPH; Grace Lee, MD, MPH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute,...

one of problems of the law of obligations is the classification of the sources of obligations. in the law of the rome the obligation arose from contract and crime. in french law there is other sources and this classification has been recorded in other codes. the lawyers believe that this classification is not extensive and logical. today there is unilateral obligation and obligations by other s...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to evaluate the trend in urinary tract infections (UTIs) from 2005 to 2009 and determine the initial impact of Medicare's nonpayment policy on the rate of UTIs in acute care hospitals. BACKGROUND October 2008 commenced Medicare's nonpayment policy for the additional care required as a result of hospital-acquired conditions, including catheter-ass...

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This report has been prepared under a contractual agreement between the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and the Institute for Research on Poverty. The authors thank Katie Thornton and Lynn Wimer for data construction and Deborah Johnson and Dawn Duren for assistance with the preparation of this report. Any views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily ...